Exam question 1 · Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust ea…

Identify the region in which writing first appeared, approximately five thousand two hundred years ago.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, region · What happens: identify, appear

This is exam question 1 of lesson 63 «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 region	det
3	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appeared	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 writing	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 writing	det
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 region	nmod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 appeared	advmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thousand	punct
10	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	12 thousand	advmod
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 thousand	compound
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	compound
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	compound
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ago	obl:unmarked
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 appeared	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here						vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	appear	past	the region in which writing					ago, first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The southern part of South America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 America	case
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 America	compound
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Scandinavia, among the Vikings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scandinavia	Scandinavia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scandinavia	punct
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 Vikings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Vikings	det
5	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Scandinavia	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mesopotamia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The interior of Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 interior	det
2	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 interior	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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